A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

摘要

The geographical scope of this book - the whole of the Indian subcontinent - is enormous and to deal comprehensively with the butterflies occurring in the region would take several thick volumes. India alone has approaching 1,400 butterfly species; this guide depicts 279 for the whole region. To prepare a field guide to include the butterflies most likely to be encountered in this vast region is frankly impossible in a small, thin volume. As a guide to enable a casual visitor to identify a reasonable percentage of butterflies seen on a visit to any part of the region, any small book is therefore more-or-less doomed to failure before it gets off the ground.